"I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry."

-- John Lewis

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“Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.”
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
“I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.”

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“Where there is nothing, there is God.”
“Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.”
“Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.”
“The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]”
“Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.”

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